This essay appears in AFTERBIRTH: Stories You Won't Read in Parents Magazine, edited by Dani Klein. My daughter Paige performed it at the Triad Theater in NYC in July 2008.

Paige and Jack

"I am completely serious, take the trash can off your head now."
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We were staying in an ornate suite in the New York Palace Hotel, which contained a glass-shelved bar and lots of fussy, fragile knick-knacks. My eight year old daughter had decided it would be fun to put a wastebasket on her head – a wastebask